Unusual Sparkling: Vidal Blanc

At the start of the new year, winter has left icy roads and snow-covered houses and squares, it was the destined time to discover this new expression of the most famous white grape variety in Canada: The Vidal Blanc! This variety is most known for its beautiful ice wines, but lends itself surprisingly well for…

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Unusual Sparkling: Auxerrois

For this issue of Unusual Sparkling, I went back to my Belgian roots, and almost all the way to my birth region. An hour’s drive south from the region of Bruges, where I grew up, you find the Flemish wine region of Heuvelland. Here, the use of the right varieties has made it possible to…

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